I want to pick up on this money theme again soon, but have to say my mind is running a hundred other directions now. Among other things, I’ve been thinking about Christmas, and how tired I am of spending energy year by year feeling a) annoyed and grieved by my country’s consumerism and b) annoyed and grieved by what feels like the idolizing of Jesus. Idolizing anyone feels like a distraction from actually seeing and learning from how they live/d. In the case of Jesus, it seems like a great way to get distance from the revolutionary, irreligious, de-idolizing words the gospels have him speak.

But none of that is the point of this post.

The point I want to make is that I’m tired of giving energy to these grievances, and am actually excited about the prospect of spending this advent differently. So, in honor of the mysteries that infuse our world with things like Jesus, and Buddha, and the towering pine trees next door, I’m going to spend my posts in the next four weeks exploring things that fill me up with wonder, and get me all sparkly inside with the miracle and mystery that is life in this world…things that do the very opposite of some the ways I’ve spent energy in advents past.  I’ll consider this a spiritual discipline.
Here is a small list of potentials:

- synchronicity
- neutrinos
- string theory
- energy fields
- clairvoyance
- fourth, fifth and sixth dimensions
- the relativity of space and time

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